Tuesday, 2. December 2003

End draws nearer for Moore’s Law


Moore’s Law, as chip manufacturers generally refer to it today, is coming to an end, according to a recent research paper. GRANTED, THAT END likely won’t come for about two decades, but Intel researchers have recently published a paper theorizing that chipmakers will hit a wall when it comes to shrinking the size of transistors, one of the chief methods for making chips that are smaller, more powerful and cheaper than their predecessors.

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